When I first heard about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, I wasn’t surprised to find many people in online spaces acting less than sympathetic. It didn’t surprise me to see calloused posts about his death. One, because unfortunately that’s just what the internet does, but also because a lot of people are genuinely […]
Do you ever get the feeling that those in power don’t have a lot of respect for you—that maybe they think you’re kind of dumb? Perhaps I’m just getting older and my B.S. detector has become super fine-tuned, or maybe it’s because every day of this election seems to bring more outlandish news than the […]
Did you hear the one about the former president who “fell down” amidst “loud noises”? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? But that’s exactly how the media initially framed Saturday’s assassination attempt on President Trump. As videos and eyewitness accounts began to surface, it became clear Trump was not, in fact, having a senile […]
Well, that was awful. It’s getting hard to tell if what we’re watching is political theater or some newly invented form of torture. Last night’s presidential debate was nothing short of a spectacle. Biden’s performance seemed to solidify what many of us have suspected for a while now—he is cognitively unwell. Even the media, usually […]
In the last few years, the slur “conspiracy theorist” has evolved from a term of ridicule to a badge of honor. Yesterday’s Trump conviction proved the OG conspiracy theorist, Robert Welch, prophetic. In 1966, he said the conspirators would figuratively “run naked to the finish line to bridge the short gap between where they had […]
